If you think typewriters seem pretty neat in theory, run OS X, and want to engage in a little fauxstalgia, the Noisy Typer app may just be right for you. There are actual typewriter emulators out there if you want the authentic experience, but if you just want the clicky noises -- and you want them all the time -- Noisy Typer is going to make you happy.

A few months back, The U.K. High Court ruled that ISPs had to begin blocking The Pirate Bay in an attempt to curb torrent piracy. There's been some serious doubt as to whether or not this would do much if anything to curb piracy in the U.K. and according to one ISP, the results are in: It hasn't. Raise your hand if you're surprised.

After 16 years -- or roughly "forever" in Internet time --  the partnership between Microsoft and NBC has come to a close, meaning that MSNBC.com is no more. NBCUniversal has purchased Microsoft's 50% stake in the venture, reportedly for around $300 million, and in the wake of the split, NBCUniversal now holds the full rights all MSNBC Digital Network properties including BreakingNews.com, Today.com, and of course, MSNBC.com. That last one, however, has undergone a name change considering its initials are no longer accurate. Enter NBCNews.com.

The Steam Summer Sale is back for day 2, and showing off some pretty killer deals on games in a wide variety of genres. Max Payne 3,  Payday: The Heist, and the Tribes Ascend starter pack hold down shooter territory, From Dust and Anno 2070 are reppin' for strategy, Space Marine fills the action hole, Indie Bundle II is your daily grab bag, The Binding of Isaac is for the masochists, and Sonic Generations is for the real masochists.

Back in the day, before Google established its reign, there were a whole bunch of different search engines to choose from: Alta Vista, Ask Jeeves,Webcrawler, Lycos, Yahoo!, and of course, Dogpile. Dogpile in particular, seems to be suffering from lack of use these days. You can tell because it's autocomplete suggestions have gone completely off the rails.

Multiplayer -- especially online multiplayer -- is such an important part of modern gaming that it's almost hard to remember what it was like before it was around. mmoAsteroids seems to be attempting a little revisionist history on that front, and like the name suggests, provides a massively multiplayer online experience for the arcade classic Asteroids. It's way more fun than it has any right to be.

You think you've had weird interactions with strangers on the train? It's probably nothing compared to what happened to Redditor delverofsecrets. While on the train in NYC, delverofsecrets bumped into a man wearing raggedy clothes who handed him the note shown above, along with a $50 dollar bill that had some seemingly random numbers written on it. After pondering the puzzle for a while, he did what any Redditor would: He harnessed the power of the hivemind.

You know Conway's Game of Life. No, it's not the one with the blue and pink pegs, and the little cars, and the harrowing life-choices made without a second thought upon the drawing of an arbitrary card. Conway's Game of Life, also known as just "Life", is the one with the clumps of blocks that keep morphing their size and shape, and sometimes even change color. Why don't you just give it a Google and watch it slowly but surely take over your screen?